Sounds like someone is failing upwards.
what is the top right one? i recognize the xbox one logo but i have no idea about that one.
I remember it took Fooooreveeer for quality titles to come out. Plus, in my opinion The PS2 Was such a juggernaut that the PS3 had way too many expectations for what a PS2 successor should be.
Overall, wasn’t THAT bad all things considered. It got Blue Ray to beat out HD DVD which lets be honest, was Sony’s main reason for releasing the console.
Along with what’s already been mentioned, it was very difficult to program for due to some interesting hardware differences and took developers a few years to really figure out which lead to some poor performance despite better hardware.
Too young to remember but I do know the original PS3 was marketed more as a multimedia device, and started at $499 in 2006, which is over $750 today. That probably gave the Xbox 360 a boost. However the PS3 is likely viewed more favorably today since the slim model was much cheaper and marketed as a gaming console rather than multimedia, whereas Microsoft had the Red Ring of Death to deal with before they went down the Multimedia marketing path, which culminated in the Xbox One launch, also pictured.
I was in highschool when the PS3 and 360 were in their prime. It was almost like the console wars part 2, but it was a cold social war. A lot of people had one or the other, but rarely both. What console you had heavily decided who your friends were. Depending on who was in your halo party, or fragging out in COD, or co-oping through borderlands 2. That was your crew. You spent hours with them and it really changed how strong some bonds were more than people realized. The PS3 had a somewhat luxury feel to it, while the 360 was more cool, I particularly liked the blade UI. The PS3 was perfectly fine, but it was pricier and therefore less popular amongst middle/lower class families. I worked at the time and saved up for both. My core group of friends played PlayStation, so that’s what I rocked for online games and as my primary. My 360 was jtagged with a rgh and I yanked out the disc drive and replaced it with a bigger hard drive. That was solely for pirated solo games and exclusives. Good times. The following generation I was strictly PS4 until switching to PC full time
Wow, people here were in high school or not born back then, huh? Crap.
No, the PS3 wasn’t that bad. It dominated pretty quickly in EU and Japanese territories where people weren’t as keen on Xbox Live, and once they dropped backwards compatibility and the price (still hate that, I’ve re-bought a fat PS3 later in life), they actually caught up and ended up narrowly outselling the 360.
It’s one of those consoles that performed differently in different regions, like the OG Xbox and the N64, which did way worse than people think. It ended up being a pretty even split, so Americans in particular remember the launch as being disastrous and it has become a bit of a trope. It wasn’t a good launch, but definitely not one of the top three worst console launches in history, even among the mainstream players.
Good thing he wasn’t with Nintendo during the Wii U phase, they might have gone under
Considering Nintendo basically has an uncle scrooge money vault, that would’ve been quite an achievement.
What are the other two besides Stadia and what is the history behind them?
The xbox pic is the Xbox One announcement where they basically said you wouldn’t be able to buy used games. On top of that they focused mostly on other media instead of games. Then sony came out on stage, undercut their price and talked only about games.
Not entirely sure about the top right but someone else said it was ps3 which was a famously bad start for Sony because of the price point and focus on other media over games (less so than xbox one but still). Then xbox 360 undercut their price and focused on games.
to be fair, a video game console that only focuses on video games isn’t very Disruptive
people didn’t want disruptive when buying a video game console they wanted something that can play video games
“if you’re good at something, never do it for free”
